11 articles - From Saturday Mar 12 2022 to Friday Mar 18 2022
Guidelines, position statements, white papers, technical reviews, consensus statements, etc…
meta-analyses and systematic reviews
RCT, clinical trials, retrospective studies, etc…
| Am J Clin Nutr |
Accuracy of a hand-held 3D imaging system for child anthropometric measurements in population-based household surveys and surveillance platforms: an effectiveness validation study in Guatemala, Kenya, and China. Understanding the factors that cause the many poor scan results and how to correct them will be needed prior to using this instrument in routine population-based survey and surveillance systems. |
Blood pressure interactions with the DASH dietary pattern, sodium, and potassium: The International Study of Macro-/Micronutrients and Blood Pressure (INTERMAP). Greater adherence to DASH diet is associated with lower BP and higher potassium intake across levels of sodium intake. The DASH diet recommends greater intake of fruits, vegetables, and other potassium rich foods that may replace sodium-rich processed foods and thereby influence BP through overlapping metabolic pathways. Possible DASH-specific pathways are speculated but confirmation requires further study. |
Effect of cocoa flavanol supplementation for prevention of cardiovascular disease events: The COSMOS randomized clinical trial. Cocoa extract supplementation did not significantly reduce total cardiovascular events among older adults but reduced CVD death by 27%. Potential reductions in total cardiovascular events were supported in per-protocol analyses. Additional research is warranted to clarify whether cocoa extract may reduce clinical cardiovascular events. |
Multivitamins in the prevention of cancer and cardiovascular disease: The COSMOS randomized clinical trial. A daily MVM supplement, compared with placebo, did not significantly reduce the incidence of total cancer among older men and women. Future studies are needed to determine the effects of MVMs on other aging-related outcomes among older adults. |
Texture-based differences in eating rate influence energy intake for minimally-processed and ultra-processed meals. Findings suggest that food texture-based differences in ER and meal energy density contribute to observed differences in energy intake between minimally-processed and ultra-processed meals. |
| Liver Transpl |
Long-term follow-up of living liver donors: A single-center experience. The scores for the four following subscales were higher in nondonors than in donors: physical functioning (p = 0.009), role limitations due to physical health (p = 0.002), energy/fatigue (p < 0.001), and bodily pain (p < 0.001). The scores on the eight subscales of the SF-36 were higher in donors with living recipients than in donors whose recipients died (p < 0.001). Our results suggest that living donor right hepatectomy is safe and results in a postdonation HRQoL similar to that of nondonors in those donors whose recipients are healthy, whereas donors whose recipients die have a lower HRQoL that is significantly negatively correlated with the time since recipient death and improves over time. |
| Pancreatology |
Double Ki-67 and synaptophysin labeling in pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor biopsies. Double Ki-Syn immunolabeling enables the accurate counting of the number of proliferating tumor cells without including inflammatory and contaminant epithelial cells compared with single Ki-67 immunolabeling in PanNETs from EUS-FNAB specimens. |
Granulocytic epithelial lesion (GEL) in heterotopic pancreas. GELs are detected in a subset of HPs without clinical evidence of AIP. Therefore, for the diagnosis of AIP, GEL should be carefully interpreted with the context of other histologic, clinical, and radiologic findings. |
Plenty of the editorials are available as full text through the publisher website using the provided link
| Liver Transpl |
The fundamentals of sex-based disparity in liver transplantation: Understanding can lead to change. In the post-transplant setting, women have differing risk than men in most major outcomes (peri-operative complications, rejection, long-term renal dysfunction, and malignancy) and assessing the two groups together is disadvantageous. Herein, we propose interventions including standardized criteria for LT referral, using an alternate MELD, education for support of women and motivating women to seek living donors. Understanding sex-based differences will allow us to improve access, tailor management and improve overall outcomes for al patients, particularly women. |
Letters to the editors and authors’ replies
| Pancreatology |
all remaining publications eg case reports, images of the month, etc…